quiescence

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In their new technique, however, the researchers found the signatures of autofluorescence can be used to study stem cells' dormant state, known as quiescence.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

Some 800 years ago, between the years 1210 and 1240, sporadic fissure eruptions took place across Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula—a period of activity that was followed by a long period of quiescence.

From National Geographic • Jan. 17, 2024

The old order has survived and the revolutionaries were either driven into exile, fell into apathy or quiescence.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2023

Most experts have converged upon an answer: We are paying back a collective “immunity debt,” one accrued from the quiescence of traditional respiratory viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2022

I answered miserably that the disease hath a period of quiescence before it blooms.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson